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I like the steady stream of innovative projects coming out of facebook as of late, but I can't help but feel like there's quite a bit of overlap in their initia

I like the steady stream of innovative projects coming out of facebook as of late, but I can't help but feel like there's quite a bit of overlap in their initiatives. Just the fact that there's a footnote about how this isn't react-native illustrates my sentiments exactly.

spicyj 12y ago
You're right that there's some overlap: > It may surprise you to hear that the Components library I’m describing is not React Native, but a separate project. > Why the distinction? It’s simple: React Native hadn’t been invented yet when we rebuilt News Feed in Components. Everyone at Facebook is excited about the future of React Native, and it’s already been used to power both Mobile Ads Manager and Groups. > (from http://www.objc.io/issue-22/facebook.html http://www.objc.io/issue-22/facebook.html) (I work on React.) We're going full steam ahead on React Native, but this is a slightly more mature project and we figured it made sense to release it for people who (for whatever reason) can't or aren't ready to adopt React Native yet. ComponentKit is also more mature and powers the most important part of the Facebook iOS app so it's virtually guaranteed to be rock-solid, whereas React Native has only been used in production for a few months.
- prabhasp 12y ago
  Would be great to note this somewhere on the component kit site.
  - adamjernst 12y ago
    Will do shortly.
- ngoel36 12y ago
  Any word on when React Native is being released? :)
  - spicyj 12y ago
    :) I think our current story is "by June 10". https://twitter.com/Vjeux/status/578311560583520256 https://twitter.com/Vjeux/status/578311560583520256
    - ngoel36 12y ago
      Any way to get early access for a huge React fan?
      - tomelliott 12y ago
        Early access? It's already public! https://github.com/facebook/componentkit https://github.com/facebook/componentkit
        vhbit 12y ago
        It was a question about React Native.
        majak 12y ago
        It's already public! https://github.com/facebook/react-native https://github.com/facebook/react-native
    - xtrumanx 12y ago
      Any clue regarding Relay and Graph-QL?
      - spicyj 12y ago
        Not sure, sorry.
dirtyaura 12y ago
it is natural and a good company strategy. Let several teams to produce competing designs that solve a similar problem with different tradeoffs. Eventually one will win inside the company. For example Google has many many competing data backend projects build on top of Big Table, emphasing different requirements.
- burntcaramel 12y ago
  And they can also branch out instead of wondering 'what if we didn't make React Native rely on JavaScript and instead just used Objective-C?'. Both approaches will have differing strengths and weaknesses and both teams (and hopefully future teams of new projects elsewhere) will have more knowledge and experience to learn from. I think it’s quite amazing what Facebook/Instagram are doing. They are creating a legacy that will hopefully inform what Apple and Google do with their frameworks too.

spicyj 12y ago

You're right that there's some overlap: > It may surprise you to hear that the Components library I’m describing is not React Native, but a separate project. > Why the distinction? It’s simple: React Native hadn’t been invented yet when we rebuilt News Feed in Components. Everyone at Facebook is excited about the future of React Native, and it’s already been used to power both Mobile Ads Manager and Groups. > (from http://www.objc.io/issue-22/facebook.html http://www.objc.io/issue-22/facebook.html) (I work on React.) We're going full steam ahead on React Native, but this is a slightly more mature project and we figured it made sense to release it for people who (for whatever reason) can't or aren't ready to adopt React Native yet. ComponentKit is also more mature and powers the most important part of the Facebook iOS app so it's virtually guaranteed to be rock-solid, whereas React Native has only been used in production for a few months.

prabhasp 12y ago
Would be great to note this somewhere on the component kit site.
- adamjernst 12y ago
  Will do shortly.
ngoel36 12y ago
Any word on when React Native is being released? :)
- spicyj 12y ago
  :) I think our current story is "by June 10". https://twitter.com/Vjeux/status/578311560583520256 https://twitter.com/Vjeux/status/578311560583520256
  - ngoel36 12y ago
    Any way to get early access for a huge React fan?
    - tomelliott 12y ago
      Early access? It's already public! https://github.com/facebook/componentkit https://github.com/facebook/componentkit
      - vhbit 12y ago
        It was a question about React Native.
        majak 12y ago
        It's already public! https://github.com/facebook/react-native https://github.com/facebook/react-native
  - xtrumanx 12y ago
    Any clue regarding Relay and Graph-QL?
    - spicyj 12y ago
      Not sure, sorry.

dirtyaura 12y ago

it is natural and a good company strategy. Let several teams to produce competing designs that solve a similar problem with different tradeoffs. Eventually one will win inside the company. For example Google has many many competing data backend projects build on top of Big Table, emphasing different requirements.

burntcaramel 12y ago
And they can also branch out instead of wondering 'what if we didn't make React Native rely on JavaScript and instead just used Objective-C?'. Both approaches will have differing strengths and weaknesses and both teams (and hopefully future teams of new projects elsewhere) will have more knowledge and experience to learn from. I think it’s quite amazing what Facebook/Instagram are doing. They are creating a legacy that will hopefully inform what Apple and Google do with their frameworks too.